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janmarine3
South Africa
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 Posted - 18 Sep 2010 : 19:47:48
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actually I find it interesting too. I have seen the Sunbeam buses in scale model form on ebay, I was born & raised in Durban and I remember electric trolley buses , and rail buses - I travelled to school in them too in the 60's. The rails were still to be seen in the steets long after the last rail buses were gone. I think the same company built double deckers for SA with 12 cyl Rolls Royce diesel engines. I am not sure what they were named and I also wonder whether someone maybe transplanted a Holbay engine into one of them trolley buses and if the guys would have got to work on time 
Wow, it is a long way back in time....Steam locomotives were still in use then as well , I did my time on steam locomotives in Greyville depot - in case somebody is from the same era.
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Holbay120
United Kingdom
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Posted - 18 Sep 2010 : 15:00:12
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I had hoped someone would find it funny!, never the less it is a fact that in addition to cars and motorcycles Sunbeam made most of Britian's Trolleybuses.
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janmarine3
South Africa
286 Posts |
Posted - 18 Sep 2010 : 00:11:24
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Ha Ha ! Yeah, it's a Sunbeam
You make me think back quite a few years...my first car was a Hillman Minx, and I traded it in for a Hillman Arrow, I was very disappointed though , it was Hillman, but it was not really....it had a Peugeot engine, and a while ago I saw a late Hillman Minx in a barn, the guy wanted only R500 ( +- 46 pounds ) for the whole car, and I opened the bonnet very excited because he mentioned that the engine was overhauled completely before it was parked off, and there sits a Peugeot engine  |
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Holbay120
United Kingdom
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Posted - 17 Sep 2010 : 23:20:06
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SUNBEAM made people carriers long before anyone else!
It's a Sunbeam F4 and I and my wife will have gone to school on it for sure!, come on where's your sense of humour? after all it is a Sunbeam!
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Sunbeam People Carrier!
